Mahatma Gandhi Cat Quotations

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

Literacy in itself is no education.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him. In this way, a true teacher regards himself as a student of his students. If you will teach your pupils with this attitude, you will benefit much from them.

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

There go my people, I must hurry to catch up with them for I am their leader.